Crossford is a closed station of the Cairn Valley Light Railway

Cairn Valley Light Railway

The Cairn Valley Light Railway was built under the regulations of the Light Railways Act 1896 and was opened on 1 March 1905. It connected the market town of Dumfries in south-west Scotland to the village of Moniaive in Dumfriesshire at the end of the Cairn Valley.- History :The line was long and...

 branch, from Dumfries. It served the rural area of Crossford in Dumfries and Galloway The line was closed to passengers during WW2.

History

The CVR was nominally independent, but was in reality controlled by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The line was closed to passengers on 3 May 1943, during WW2 and to freight on 4 July 1949, and the track lifted in 1953. 1947 is also quoted as a date of complete closure.

Trains were controlled by a 'lock and block' system whereby the trains operated treadles on the single line to interact with the block instruments.

Other stations

• Irongray
• Newtonaird
• Stepford
• Dunscore
  Dunscore
  Dunscore is a small village which lies northwest of Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It has a population of about 150 people....
  
  
• Crossford
• Kirkland
• Moniaive
  Moniaive railway station
  Moniaive .is the closed station terminus of the Cairn Valley Light Railway branch, from Dumfries. It served the rural area of Moniaive in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.- History :...
  
  

Sources

• Sanders, Keith and Hodgins, Douglas (1995). British Railways. Past and Present South West Scotland. No. 19. ISBN 1-85895-074-0.
• Thomas, David St John & Whitehouse, Patrick (1993). The Romance of Scotlands Railways. Newton Abbot : David St John Thomas. ISBN 0-946537-89-5.

External links

• Disused stations